# Article 26, paragraph (2), item (iv), its wordings — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act

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How the wording of Article 26, paragraph (2), item (iv) (第二十六条第二項第四号) changed with each amendment, and how it will change.

- Law: Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法) — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act
- Provision: Article 26, paragraph (2), item (iv) (第二十六条第二項第四号) — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-26/par-2/item-4 (as Markdown: https://japanlaw.org/md/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-26/par-2/item-4)
- The law's amendments: https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/amendments
- 2 wordings, oldest first.

## 1. Before Act No. 30 of 2026

- State: In force

Japanese:

> 上場会社等の議決権の取得（当該取得をしたもの（以下この号及び第四項において「議決権取得者」という。）が、当該取得の後において保有することとなる当該上場会社等の保有等議決権（自己又は他人の名義をもつて保有する議決権及び投資一任契約その他の契約に基づき行使することができる議決権として政令で定めるものをいう。以下この号及び次号において同じ。）の数及び当該議決権取得者の密接関係者が保有する当該上場会社等の保有等議決権の数を合計した純議決権数（議決権のうち重複するものがある場合には、当該重複する数を控除した純計によるもの。同号において同じ。）の当該上場会社等の総議決権に占める割合が百分の一を下らない率で政令で定める率以上となる場合に行う取得に限り、前号に掲げる行為を伴うものを除く。）

English (Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice):

> the acquisition of voting rights in a listed or equivalent company (but only an acquisition that results in the net number of voting rights arrived at when the number of voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract (meaning voting rights that a person holds in their own name or in another person's name, and voting rights prescribed by Cabinet Order as those that are exercisable based on a discretionary investment contract or any other such contract; hereinafter the same applies in this item and the following item) in the listed or equivalent company that the person acquiring voting rights (hereinafter referred to as the "acquirer of the voting rights" in this item and paragraph (4)) will come to hold after the acquisition, and the number of voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract in the listed or equivalent company by persons closely affiliated with the acquirer of the voting rights are added together (if there are any duplicate voting rights among these, this is based on the net total arrived at when they are deducted; the same applies in the following item), accounting for a proportion of the total voting rights in the listed or equivalent company that does not fall below 1 percent and that is at least the percentage prescribed by Cabinet Order, and excluding acquisition involving the action stated in the preceding item);

## 2. 4 January 2027 — Act No. 30 of 2026

- State: Not yet in force
- Takes effect: 4 January 2027
- The amendment: Reworded (Act No. 30 of 2026) — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/amendments/20270104_508AC0000000030

Japanese:

> 上場会社等の議決権の取得（当該取得をしたもの（以下この号及び第四項において「議決権取得者」という。）が、当該取得の後において保有することとなる当該上場会社等の保有等議決権（自己又は他人の名義をもつて保有する議決権及び投資一任契約その他の契約に基づき行使することができる議決権として政令で定めるものをいう。以下この条及び第二十九条第九項において同じ。）の数及び当該議決権取得者の密接関係者が保有する当該上場会社等の保有等議決権の数を合計した純議決権数（その数を合計する議決権に重複するものがある場合には、当該重複する数を控除した純計による議決権の合計の数をいう。以下この項において同じ。）の当該上場会社等の総議決権に占める割合が百分の一を下らない率で政令で定める率以上となる場合に行う取得に限り、前号に掲げる行為を伴うものを除く。）

English (Machine translation, corrected on review, not official):

> the acquisition of voting rights in a listed or equivalent company (but only an acquisition that results in the net number of voting rights (meaning the total number of voting rights on the basis of the net total calculated by deducting the number of duplicate voting rights, if any, among the voting rights whose numbers are added together; hereinafter the same applies in this paragraph) arrived at when the number of voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract (meaning voting rights that a person holds in their own name or in another person's name, and voting rights prescribed by Cabinet Order as those that are exercisable based on a discretionary investment contract or any other such contract; hereinafter the same applies in this Article and Article 29, paragraph (9)) in the listed or equivalent company that the person acquiring voting rights (hereinafter referred to as the "acquirer of the voting rights" in this item and paragraph (4)) will come to hold after the acquisition, and the number of voting rights held or otherwise exercisable under contract in the listed or equivalent company by persons closely affiliated with the acquirer of the voting rights are added together, accounting for a proportion of the total voting rights in the listed or equivalent company that does not fall below 1 percent and that is at least the percentage prescribed by Cabinet Order, and excluding acquisition involving the action stated in the preceding item);

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## Sources

- The dates and the amending laws: e-Gov (Digital Agency) (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228)
- English name of the law: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb)
- English titles of the amending laws: Written for this site with AI
- The Japanese text before: e-Gov (Digital Agency) (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064)
- The Japanese text after: e-Gov (Digital Agency) (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20270104_508AC0000000030)